SF News Man and Boy Die After Being Pulled From Ocean Near Half Moon Bay A man and a boy, both of whom appear to have been swept out to sea by a rip current Sunday, both died after initially being rescued in the waters south of Half Moon Bay.
Arts & Entertainment Watch: 2,471-Pound Pumpkin From Minnesota Wins Half Moon Bay's World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off The city of Half Moon Bay was out of its gourd again Monday morning for the Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off, and it was a squeaker, as the winning 2,471-pound pumpkin won by a razor-thin margin of just six pounds.
SF News Another Farm Worker at Half Moon Bay Mushroom Farm Threatens to Kill Coworkers For the third time in two years, a worker at a mushroom farm in Half Moon Bay has threatened major violence against his coworkers, and this time the suspect had been recently fired from the farm.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Farmworker Housing Approved In Half Moon Bay Hearing to get a new trial for Scott Peterson gets underway; a house fire in Brisbane was caused by dryer lint; and a project to build farmworker housing in Half Moon Bay was approved by the city's planning commission after lengthy debate.
SF News One Dead After Car Goes Off Cliff Along Highway 1 in Coastal San Mateo County Traffic was disrupted in both directions of Highway 1 north of Half Moon Bay Thursday afternoon, as a car went over a cliff shortly before 1 pm, and the driver of that car has been pronounced dead.
SF News Family of Half Moon Bay Shooting Victims Sues Mushroom Farm for ‘Failure to Protect Farm Workers’ Two brothers were shot and one was killed in last year’s Half Moon Bay mass shooting that took seven lives, and now the surviving brother and his family are suing the California Terra Gardens farm.
SF News All Four Victims of Half Moon Bay Plane Crash Identified, Two Were Scheduled to Be Married Sunday Investigators' fears are confirmed that there were indeed four people aboard the homebuilt plane that crashed in Half Moon Bay a week ago Sunday, and heartbreakingly, the pilot and one passenger were actually planning to get married this coming weekend.
SF News Two Half Moon Bay Plane Crash Victims Identified, Two More Possibly Unaccounted For We now know the names of two victims of the Sunday night’s tragic plane crash in Half Moon Bay, including the pilot, and the make of the homebuilt aircraft. There is also some conflicting information on whether there may have been others onboard.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Woman's Body Found Near Site of Half Moon Bay Plane Crash The body of one victim of yesterday's plane crash off Half Moon Bay has likely been found; one of the victims in a hot-air balloon crash in Arizona was a 24-year-old from Cupertino; and hundreds take part in an MLK Day march in SF.
SF News [Update] Search for Survivors Now 'Suspended' After Small Plane Crashed in Half Moon Bay A small plane which took off from the East Bay crashed in Half Moon Bay sometime after 7 p.m. Sunday night, and as of late Monday morning, the Coast Guard suspended their search for survivors, without having found the pilot or any of the passengers.
Bay Area Sports Mavericks Surf Rally Underway as 30-Plus-Foot Waves Pummel Half Moon Bay The most dangerous surfing conditions of the year are also the most beloved surfing conditions of the year for the world’s most elite surfers, who’ve descended on Half Moon Bay for the legendary, unscheduled Mavericks surfing festivities.
SF News Five-Year-Old Merced Girl Swept Out to Sea Near Half Moon Bay Identified A five-year-old girl who, along with her grandfather, was fatally swept out to sea from Martin's Beach in Half Moon Bay on Saturday, has been identified.
SF News Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Donating $1 Million to Half Moon Bay Shooting Victims and Farmworker Housing The January mass shooting in Half Moon Bay exposed a secret underbelly of immigrant farm workers living in squalid on-farm housing, but a million-dollar donation from Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan’s foundation will go to improving those workers’ living conditions.
SF News 18-Year-Old Injured After Getting Stabbed In Fight at Moss Beach Police officers responded to a report of a fight at a house party between Pacifica and Half Moon Bay, where a young male was suffering from stab wounds.
SF News Lawsuit Accuses Half Moon Bay Ritz-Carlton of Shocking Incident Involving Semen-Laced Water A female guest alleges that a Ritz-Carlton employee ejaculated into a water bottle that she was served —and that the hotel was negligent and won't comply with authorities.
SF News Amateur Dungeness Crab Poachers Taking Uber to Half Moon Bay Beach Pose Threat to Crab Population Hundreds of crab bandits have been illegally swarming a Half Moon Bay beach to poach Dungeness crab out of season. They not only risk a nearly $500 fine, they’re also screwing up the hatching season and threatening the crab population.
Arts & Entertainment Watch: 2,749-Pound Pumpkin Wins Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival Contest, Sets New World Record The 2,500-pound largest pumpkin ever grown in California still wasn't big enough to win the Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival Pumpkin Weigh-Off, as a farmer from Minnesota drove in a pumpkin that won the contest and set a new world record at 2,749 pounds.
Sponsored Half Moon Bay’s 51st Annual Pumpkin Festival Sprouts Miles Of Smiles The smell of autumn is in the air, and in the picturesque coast around Half Moon Bay, this thrilling season is marked by a festival like no other: the iconic Half Moon Bay Art & Pumpkin Festival.
SF News Sole Surviving Victim of Half Moon Bay Shooting Says He's 'Scarred for Life' Pedro Felix Romero Perez was the only one of eight people shot at two Half Moon Bay farms on January 23, and he's just now speaking out about the experience.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Half Moon Bay Shooter to Enter Plea The 66-year-old Half Moon Bay shooting suspect, Zhao Chunli, is due to enter a plea in court; SF city officials meet with residents who lived near last week's home explosion; and an Oakland councilmember is mad about the decision to fire the police chief.
SF News Dispute That Triggered Half Moon Bay Shooting Was Over $100 Damage Charge Adding to the tragic narrative about underpaid farmworkers and the socioeconomic situation underpinning Monday's shooting in Half Moon Bay, we now learn that the triggering dispute that occurred between the suspect and his supervisor was over $100.
SF News Half Moon Bay Shooting Suspect Admits to Murders In Jailhouse Interview, Suggests He Might Have Mental Illness Zhao Chunli, the suspect now charged with killing seven people on Monday at two mushroom farms in Half Moon Bay, admitted to the murders in a jailhouse interview with NBC Bay Area reporter Janelle Wang on Thursday.
SF News Half Moon Bay Shooting Draws Attention to Squalid Conditions For Farm Workers Who Live On-Site While San Mateo County prosecutors are busy investigating the details of Monday’s mass shooting in Half Moon Bay, they also say “we have to act” on the conditions of farmworkers living in shipping containers, working 70-hour weeks, at well below minimum wage.
SF News Victims' Names Released In Half Moon Bay Shooting; Details Emerge Including Note Suspect Left For Wife While police haven't revealed much publicly about Monday's tragic shooting in Half Moon Bay, a narrative is emerging about what transpired at two mushroom farms that ended with seven victims dead. And we now know the names of those victims.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Two More Half Moon Bay Shooting Victims Named A family member has identified two brothers as among those shot in Half Moon Bay; two siblings stand accused of attempting to murder their mother in Monterey County; and all 11 victims in Saturday's Monterey Park shooting have now been identified.
